December 21, 2011
As more devices ship with wireless networking capabilities, it becomes increasingly important to have routers that are capable of handling connections from hardware such as tablets, laptops and mobile phones. The problem is that many routers still in use are perfectly good pieces of hardware, except for one drawback – they don’t support Wireless-N or offer advanced encryption such as WPA.
March 21, 2011
Xbox Live is Microsoft’s premium online content delivery and multiplayer gaming service for the Xbox 360. Whilst it’s free to join for a basic account, a subscription opens up the world of online play and exclusive content – when it works. If you’ve recently signed up for a paid Xbox Live account and are unable [...]
February 28, 2011
Something that many consumers do not really think about is that hardware you buy in the store actually has software running on it as well. Any router you get – that’s the device that distributes the Internet coming into your house or business to multiple computers – has software running on it. Although “officially” the [...]
February 25, 2011
For those of you who don’t know, DD-WRT is an open-source replacement firmware for household Internet routers that greatly enhances their functionality as well as providing increased performance. Though I was initially daunted by the sheer range of additional options that the DD-WRT firmware provides, I’m pleased to report there is a hell of a [...]
February 22, 2011
How many WiFi devices do you own? I own three myself – my iPad, iPod, and Android smartphone – but only my smartphone is capable of reaching the Internet without a WiFi connection. If I didn’t own a wireless router or I was someplace that only offered a plug-in connection, I would be out of [...]
February 20, 2011
In home networks, IP addresses aren’t usually fixed, but they do fall within specific ranges. Your router will assign a new IP address automatically if another computer joins the network, or if your configuration changes. For the most part, this works out just fine – you shouldn’t notice a difference to your Internet performance or [...]
February 13, 2011
WiFi running a bit slow lately? If your router is still using old security methods such as WEP, then there’s a very real possibility that someone has hacked in to steal your WiFi. In my article on Cool WiFi Devices You’ve Probably Never Heard Of, I showed you a $100 commercially available router that would [...]
August 3, 2010
Do you have some reason to offer free wifi to others? Maybe you own a business and you want to share your Internet with the customer waiting room. Perhaps Uncle Fred is over for a while and he needs WiFi but you don’t need him snooping around your home network. Or you could just be [...]
April 14, 2010
So you have a small home office or a few computers at home. Want to build a local area network to allow them to connect to each other? Occasionally, there are reasons for building a network without a router. Sometimes, to save money and other times for security. Depending on what you want to do, [...]
March 18, 2010
You have decided to work on setting up your very own home wireless network so that your home computers and devices will be able to access the Internet or anything on your network from anywhere in your home. You are making a great decision and once you experience WiFi at home you will never want [...]
